Demo iiatcin, Bellefonte, Pa., May 4. 1900. as" rua ROBERT HARDY’S SEVEN DAYS. A Dream and Its Consequences. BY REV. CHARLES SHELDON. Author of “In His Steps.” “The Crucifixion of Philip Strong,” Malcolm Kirk,” Ete. (Copyright, 1900, by Advance Publishing Co.) (BEGUN IN No. 12, MARCH 23, 1900.) But Mrs. Hardy was first to move to- ward the stricken woman. Where did the wife of the once haughty and proud man learn the touch of sympathy that drew that other poor sister nearer to her and finally soothed her into quiet- ness? Certain it is that suffering in her own home had marvelously taught the richly dressed woman, the refined, cultured lady, to hold this other one to be of the same household of God with her. So it was that she finally succeed- ed in drawing her away into the other room and there held her, gasping for breath, now that the brief strength was spent, and crying feebly: “O God, help me! Don’t keep me here in this world any longer!” If this brief scene thrilled the neigh- bors with pity, what shall be said of its effect on Robert Hardy? For a moment it seemed to him more than he could bear. He started to his feet and put his hands before his face. Then, calming himself by a great effort, he sat down, and his face became almost like a stone in its rigidity. When his wife finally succeeded in getting the woman into the rear room, his face re- © tw / 0 God, help me! Don’t keep me here in this world any longer!” laxed, and he breathed more easily, but as soon as possible he arose and went out and stood silent there until the body was brought out and placed in the hearse. Then he went in and spoke a few words to his wife and told Mr. Jones that he could take four or five to the cemetery if they wished to go. Mrs. Hardy would stay with the suffering widow until he came back. Mr. Hardy also whispered some- thing to his minister and gave him a large roll of bills to be used for the family, then went out again. That ride in the cold gray of the de- clining winter afternoon was a bitter experience to Robert. He roused him- self at the grave as he heard the words, “Raise us from the death of sin unto the resurrection of righteous- ness,” and something like a gleam of hope shot through his heart at the words. Surely there was mercy with him who had conquered death for the sake of the human race. He drove back with more peace of soul than he had thought possible. By the time he had reached the shop tene- ments it was growing dark. He drove home with his wife and thought with something of a feeling of pleasure of the evening before him with his fam- ily. This second day had been more agitating in some ways than his first. He had been unnerved at the funeral and had felt remorse more keenly than he had once thought possible. As he reviewed the events of the day with his wife he felt dissatisfied. And yet he had truly tried to do his duty in the light of eternity. What more could he do? He felt anxious about George and told his wife of the conversation he had with him. Mrs. Hardy felt the same anxiety with her husband. After the horses were put up and the father and mother had gore into the house they continued the conversation. Alice was up stairs with George, and the other children had not come back. It was dark, but husband and wife sat by the light of the open fire and talked together until nearly 6 o’clock. Mr. Hardy had just said something about Clara, and Mrs. Hardy replied, “Isn’t it about time they were here?” when the telephone bell rang in the little office adjoining the hallway, where Mr. Hardy did some of the business of the company, being connected by wire with the shops. He went in and an- swered the call, and a series of sharp exclamations and questions was soon followed by his coming back into the room where his wife sat. By the light of the open fire she could see that he was very pale. His overcoat was lying on the couch where he had thrown it as he came in. He hastily put it on and then said to his wife: “Mary, there has been an accident to the 6 o'clock way train between Baldwin and here, and Burns has tele- phoned me to come down. Don’t be alarmed. We will hope for the best.” Mrs. Hardy started up. “Why, Will and Bess and Clara were coming home on that train!” “Mary”—Mr. Hardy’s voice trem- bled, but he tried to speak calmly and in comfort—*“let us hope for the best.” “What did Mr. Burns telephone? Tell me all, Robert. I can bear it with you.” “He telephoned that the train was derailed and a dozen people killed and asf manv injured. I must go down the ’ road at once. Oh, my God. spare our dear ones!” Mr. Hardy was almost overwhelmed by this last stroke. and yet he asked himself how many accidents had oc- curred this last year on the road, and he had never given much thought to the suffering of those families afilicted. Now perhaps it had come to him. and, bidding his wife pray and hope, he rushed out of the house and down to the station with the energy and rapidi- ty of the youth who in college days had taken prizes for athletic superi- ority. At the yard he found a special train just ready to go to the scene of the ac- cident. It consisted of a wrecking car, a caboose and one coach with tender and engine. He mounted the engine with a feeling that it was a little near- er the fatal spot and would reach there first. At the last minute no more defi- nite news concerning the particular persons killed and injured had been re- ceived. Mr. Hardy felt almost glad of the un- certainty as the engine pulled out and started on its run of 15 miles, soon at- taining a speed of 55 miles an hour. The snow was falling in large, moist flakes. It was growing warmer and would rain before morning. He gazed at the narrzsy band of light on the track ahead and leaned forward as if to help the engine go faster. He did not speak, and so the train rushed through the night. And so the second of Robert Hardy's seven days drew to a close. CHAPTER VII As the engine drew near the scene of the wreck a great crowd could be seen standing about the track. Before the train came to a stop Robert Hardy leaped down from the cab and strug- gled forward, uttering cries of which he himself probably was not conscious. The accident had occurred upon a bridge which spanned a small river in the vicinity of Baldwin, near which town Mr. Hardy’s brother lived. The engine, mail car, two day coach- es and two sleepers had crashed through and. falling a distance of 50 feet, had partly broken through the ice of the frozen stream. To add to the horror of the disaster the two sleepers had caught fire, and there was abso- lutely no means to fight it. Mr. Hardy caught confused glimpses of men down on the ice throwing handfuls of snow upon the blazing timbers in a frantic attempt to drive back or put out the flames. He fell rather than scrambled down the steep, slippery bank of the stream, and then the full horror of the situation began to dawn upon him. The baggage car and tender had fall- en in such a way that the trucks rested upright on the ice, and the position of the timbers was relatively that of the train before it had left the track. One day coach lay upon its side, but had broken completely in two as if some giant hand had pulled it apart, leaving the ragged ends of timbers projecting toward one another in such curious fashion that if the two ends of the car had been pushed toward the middle the splintered beams would have fitted into place almost as if made on a pat- tern. The other day coach had fallen upon one end. and one-third of the en- tire coach was under water. The other end. resting partly against the broken car, stuck up in the air like some cu- rious. fantastic pillar or leaning tower. Mr. Hardy was conscious of all this and more as he heard the groans of the injured and the cries of those begging to be released from the timbers under which they had been caught. But his own children! Never had he loved them as now. The crowd of people had increased to a mob. The confusion was that of ter- ror. Mr. Hardy rushed about the wreck searching for his children, a great throbbing at his heart as he thought of their probable fate. when the sweetest of all sounds, Bessie’s dear voice, came to him, and the next minute he had caught up the child as she ran to him and strained her to his breast as in the old days when he had carried her about the house and yard. “Where are Will and Clara?” “Oh, father, they're here, and Will wasn't hurt :nuch more than I was, but Clara has fainted, and she is lying down over here!” Bess dragged her father out across the ice to the edge of the bank, where a number of the victims had been laid on the cushions of the seats, some dead. some dying. There lay Clara very white and still, with Will bend- ing over her, himself bleeding from several wounds about the head and hands, but still conscious and trying to restore his sister. Mr. Hardy kneeled down in the snow by his son’s side, and Will, seeing him there, was not surprised, but he sob- bed excitedly, “Oh, she is dead!” “No,” replied her father; “she is not.” Clara stirred. and her lips moved. but she did not open her eyes, and then her father noticed that a strange mark lay over her face. How Mr. Hardy succeeded in carry- ing the girl to the top of the bank: how he left her there in the care of brave hearted women while he went down into that .cll’s pit to rescue vic tims imprisoned and groaning for help; how Bess related the accident of the night and tried to explain how she was not hort except a scratch or two. because she fell between two car seat cushions that were jammed around her and protected her from injury; how the excitement grew as it was discovered that the dead and dying would number more than 75 instead of 10 or 12, as Burns had telephoned: how finally Robert Hardy and Will and Bess and Clara, with other victims, were taken back to Barton, where a great crowd of anxious, pale faced people was surg: ing through the station and over the track; how James Caxton was first to board the train down by the shops at the risk of his neck as in the rainy darkness he swung himself on the dead run up to the platform of the coach; how Mrs. Hardy met her children and .here to live? husband; how there was sorrow in many a home in Barton that night and for many days to come; how Mr. Har- dy finally, a little after midnight, en- tirely exhausted by the events of the day and night, fell asleep and dreamed the scene all over again—all this and a great deal more might be of interest concerning one of the most remarkable railroad accidents that ever occurred in this country, but would be out of place in this narrative. For it is all true, exactly and literally, only the de- tailed horrors of it no pen can describe. no words can tell. Mr. Hardy woke about 8 o’clock rest- ed, but feeling very lame and sore from his exertions of the night. His first thought was of Clara. When he went to sleep, the girl seemed to be resting without pain. only that strange mark across her face made them all anxious. It was not a bruise, but it lay like a brand across the eyes, which had nct opened since her father found her lying by the frozen stream. James had insisted on staying in the house to be of service, and Mrs. Hardy had felt grateful for his presence as she watched for returning conscious- ness from Clara, who still gave no more sign of animation, although she breathed easily and seemed to be free from pain. Every doctor and surgeon in town had been summoned to the scene of the accident. But Mr. Hardy felt so anxious for Clara as he came in and looked at her that he went down stairs and asked James if he wouldn't run out and see if any of the doctors had returned. “Yes, sir; I'll go at once. How is she now, Mr. Hardy ?”: James looked him in the face with the look that love means when it is true and brave. “My boy,” replied Mr. Hardy, laying his hand on James’ shoulder, “I don’t know. There is something strange about it. Get a doctor if you can. But I know there must be many other sad homes today in Barton. Oh, it was horrible!” He sat down and covered his face, while James with a brief “God help us, sir!” went out in search of a doctor. Mr. Hardy went up stairs again and, with his wife, knelt down and offered a prayer of thanksgiving and of ap- peal. “O Lord,” said Robert, “grant that this dear one of ours may be re- stored to us again. Spare us this an- guish, not in return for our goodness, but out of thy great compassion for our sins repented of.” Will and Bess lay in the next room, and now that the reaction had set in they were sleeping, Will feverish and restless, Bess quiet and peaceful, as if nothing had happened out of the usual order of things. “Where is George?’ asked Mr. Har- dy as he rose from his prayer. “l don’t know. Robert. He started down to the train a little while after you did. Haven’t you seen him?” “No, Mary. God grant he may not”— Mr. Hardy did not dare finish his thought aloud. His wife guessed his thought, and to- gether the two sat hand in hand, drawn very near by their mutual trou- ble and by all the strange events of that strange week, and together they talked of the accident and of Clara and James and their eldest son, and then Mrs. Hardy said as she trembling drew her husband’s face near to her: “Robert, do you still have that im- pression concerning the time left you Do you still think this week is to be the end?” Mrs. Hardy had a vague hope that the shock of the accident might have destroyed the impression of the dream, but her hope was disappointed. “My dear wife.” replied Robert, “there is not the least doubt in my **Oh, she is dead!” mind that my dream was a vision of what will happen. There is no ques tion but that after Sunday I shall not be with you. This is Wednesday. How lightninglike the days have flown! How precious the moments are! How many of them I have wasted in foolish selfishness! Mary, 1 should go mad with the thought if 1 did not feel the necessity of making this week the best week of my life, only I do not know what is most important to do. If it had been seven months or even seven weeks, I might have planned more wisely. Oh, it is cruelly brief, the time! But I must make the wisest possible use of it. This accident, so unexpected. has complicated the mat- ter. I had not reckoned on it.” How many of us do reckon on acci- dents? They always come into our lives with a shock. Yet it seems possi- ble that a man who lives very close to God every day might be so ready for everything that not even the most ter- rible catastrophe could make much difference to his plans for daily life, least of all deprive him of his reason, as it has so often done. Robert Hardy was just beginning to realize dimly that life is not one thing, but many things, and that its importance is the importance which belongs to the char- acter of God himself. He began to talk calmly with his wife concerning what he would do that day and was still talking about it when James came in with a doctor, who at ance went up stairs. He was just from vas just from the scene of the accident and bore marks of a hard night's work. His first glance at Clara was hard and pro- fessional. but as he looked he grew very grave. and an expression of seri- ous surprise came over his weary face. He laid his hands on the girl’s eyes and examined them. raised her hand and dropped it upon the bed again. Then, turning to the father and mother, he said gently: “You must prepare yourselves for a terrible fact resulting from the acci- dent to your daughter. She has suffer- ed a shock that will probably render her blind as long as she lives.” Mr. and Mrs. Hardy listened, pale faced and troubled. It was hard to think of the girl. so strong willed. so passionate and yet so capable of noble impulses and loving desires. as all her life shut up within the darkness thus. It was bitter to think of this for her. What would it be to her when she awoke to the whole consciousness of it? The doctor spoke again slowly: “There is another thing you ought to be prepared for. In rare cases like this it happens sometimes that a loss of hearing accompanies the loss of sight.” Then, after a pause: “And with the loss of sight and hearing it is possible the peculiar shock has deprived your daughter of the power of speech. I do not know yet whether this has happen- ed. but I prepare vou for the worst.” (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) Imperialism. Figures Showing Cost of our Imperialistic Folly. Before the civil war broke out in 1861. the expenses of the fedral government rang- ed from 50 to 60 millions a year, and only in one year reached as high a figure as $73,- 000,000. During the Mexican war the high- est yearly outlay was $54,000,000. The vear the civil war commenced the expendi- tures were only $66,650,000, but they mounted very rapidly after Fort Sumpter reached her maximum in 1865, the year the war ended, with a million soldiers in the field. and the enormous total being 1,295 millions of dollars. There was a big drop after the war closed, and in 1866 the expenditures were 519 millions, then falling to 242 millions in 1885-86, the first year of the Cleveland administration. After the census legislation of 1890 there was a rapid increase, and in 1898 the expenditures went up over a hundred millions and were $443,000,000. Secretary Gage on Monday, as required by law, sent to congress estimates for the appropriations for the next fiscal year end- ing July 1, 1901. The aggregate is $631,081- 994, or 38 millions over the estimates for the current year and 34 millions over the appropriations. Tho total on account of pensions is $145,- 230,232, which is a decrease of $3,380 com- pared with the current year, from which it would be supposed that pensions are on the down grade, but the West India and Phil- ippine pensions remain to be heard from. Our army and navy expenditures are in- creasing. For the army next year 190 mil- lions is asked, and for the navy 76 millions an increase over the current year in both branches of the Service of 52 millions. Oar army, navy and pension expenditures for the coming year foot up the enormous sum of $411,812,772, leaving from the grand total the sum of $219,269,221 for all other purposes of government. We are not only nearing but passing the totals of European imperialism. Nearly two-thirds of the enor- mous aggregate of national expenditures goes to war and navy and the pensions of past wars. President McKinley’s national bhook- keeper figures up he will need for the clos- ing year of the McKinley administration the neat sum of $631,000,000. Theaverage rate of expenditure of Cleveland’s 1st admin. istration was $270,000,000 a year, and for his second adminstration $365,000,000, the increase resulting mainly from the depen- dent pension law, which he vetoed his first term and became a law in the Harrison in- terregnum. Tostate the case fully,the appropriations and expenditures of the fonr years of the McKinley administration, accepting Secre- tary Gage’s estimates for the closing vear, will be as follows : 1897-98. $443,368,583 1898-99. 700,093,564 1899-1900. .600,958,112 IBOL....o over iinnbsns are niiiiibidhins tetas eons 631,081,394 The difference between 631 millions of dollars a year and 270 millions of dollars a year represents the difference in cost be- tween Cleveland’s American policies and McKinley’s imperialist rage. Are we not paying a little too much for our whistle? And yet President McKinley at the outset of his message declares that the conditions of the country ‘‘are of unusual prosperity, of 'universa' good will among the people at home and in relations of peace and friend- ship with every government of the world.” We are paying at the rate of six and seven hundred millions of dollars a year for it, for every penny is drained from the pock- ets of the people by taxation. It is their substance that is being thrown away on anti-American policies. A Boy’s Essay on Hornets. A hornet is the smartest bug that flies. He comes when he pleases and goes when he gets ready. One way a hornet shows his smartness is by attending to his own business, and making everybody who in- terferes with him wish they had done the same thing. When a hornet stings a fellow he knows it, and never will stop talking about it as long as his friends will listen. One day a hornet stung my pa (my pa is a preacher) on the nose, and he did not make any pas- toral visiting for a month without talking about that hornet.—Our Dumb Animals. ——A Pittsburg paper recently: stated that ‘‘Governor W. A. Stone has appointed General John A. Wiley, of Franklin, to succeed George E. Snowden, of Philadel- phia, as Major General of the National Guard of Pennsylvania. The commission of the present commander expires July 25th. General Wiley is at present not as- signed. When the war with Spain started he was at the head of the Second brigade. He was made a Brigadier General in the United States volunteer service, and Chas. Miller, of Franklin, succeeded him in the state militia. When peace was declared, General Wiley returned to the Guard, but bad no assignment.’’” General Wiley is a fine officer, and the honor could not fall upon the head of a more enthusiastic national guardsman and competent com- mander. To Cure Lagrippe in Two Days. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature on every box. 25c¢. 41-6m. THE FIRST WEEK OF THE APRIL TERM A SHORT ONE.—It took only a little over two days to clean up ali the cases that were ready for trial the first week of the April session of common pleas court and the number of people attracted to town was un- usually small. Court convened Monday morning and most of the session was taken up by the presentation of petitions, ete. The call of the jury roll showed all present but those from the Philipsburg side who were unable to get here until afternoon, owing to the poor train accommodations from that end of the county. W. Galer Morrison, of Bellefonte, was appointed ‘‘foreman’’ of the grand jury. After receiving the usual explanatory and instructive charges by Judge Love, the jurors retired to their room, to consider the bills of indictment presented. The consta- bles of the several boroughs and townships then made their quarterly returns. The list of civil cases on the list for the first week was called and disposed of as follows :—In the case of Philip A. Leister vs. E. M. Huyett, Appeal. Plea ‘‘Non Assumpsit’’ the case was marked settled and costs paid. The cases which the Frick and Lindsey Co., George B. Simler, Jr. The Ohio In- jector Co. . The Pittsburg Gage and Supply Co., and the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. L. & R. Wister, agents, plaintiffs, respectively, vs Kate A. Miller, trading as Gowland Manufacturing Co., and Gowland Mfg Co., John Gowland, manager, defendants, were at last term of court discontinued. The court at this term struck them off the list. Dr. John Sebring, Jr. vs. the overseers of the poor of Bellefonte Boro. A settlement was effected by the attorneys in the case. L. C. Bullock vs Homer Carr, appeal, plea ‘Non Assumpsit,’’ was settled. Runkle Bros., vs Central R. R. Co., of Pa, was continued on the ground that the plaintiff’s witness William Runkle, who 1s in the Philippines, could not be here at this term of court. Commonwealth vs Howard Schenck charge, betrayal, prosecutrix Laura B. Haines. Defendant plead guilty and was sentenced to pay the sum of $25.00 to the prosecucrix and the costs of prosecution. The costs amount to $101.13. Schenck went to jail. Commonwealth vs Fred Smith, charge, betrayal. Prosecutrix Lida Barnett. Re- quest for ‘‘Nolle prosequi’’ filed. Commonwealth vs William Lyon charge, maintaining a public nuisance in a public road and also in a private road, leading from Howard to Marsh Creek. Prosecutor, G. A. Confer. Jury rendered a verdict of not guilty but divided the costs equally be- tween prosecutor and defendant. Commonwealth vs Wm. Stump, charge betrayal. Prosecutor Dora E. Wingard. Defendant found guilty by jury and usual sentence imposed. Commonwealth vs Edw. Fetzer, charge escaping board bill. Prosecutrix Harriet Rowley. Defendant plead guilty. Sen- tence was suspended by the court. Commonwealth vs Elmer Jackson, charge, betrayal. Prosecutrix, Sadie Treaster. Grand jury ignored the bill and directed the prosecutrix to pay costs. Commonwealth vs John H. Taylor, charge, betrayal. Prosecutrix, Mary E. Feaster. Defendant found guilty and re- ceived the usual sentence. Taylor went to jail. Commonwealth vs James Hurley, charge making threats. Prosecutrix Bridget How- ley* Nol. pros. entered by the court for want of evidence. Commonwealth vs. Andrew Kerns, charge, betrayal. Prosecutrix, Lizzie Shirk. De- fendant found guilty and received the usual sentence. Kerns went to jail for six months on the account of adultery and three months for f. and b. Commonwealth vs Harry Hassinger, charge, betrayal. Prosecutrix, Emma Tressler. Grand jury ignored the bill and placed the costs upon the prosecutrix. Commonwealth vs. Wm. Broudt, charge larceny. Prosecutrix, M. A. Nyman. Grand Jury ignored the bill and directed the prosecutor to pay the costs. Prosecu- tor was sentenced accordingly by the court. The National Computing Scale Co. vs. F. B. Stover on the civil list was called. This was an appeal taken by defendant judgment rendered by justice of the peace. Plea, ‘‘Non assumpsit.’”’ Defendant con- fessed judgment 1n open court in the sum of $15.00. This baving completed about all of the business all the jurors, except the one panel, were discharged Tuesday even- ing. In the case of Mike Holley, Herman Artka, Joseph Bachals, F. H. Yoner, Mike Simmons, Baltzer Kline, Mike Sherack, Henry Anna, Adam Batotskey, Jacob Mateskey, Anton Zadizzine, Vencent Roska Katie Campbell, Andrew Groff, William Bennet, Joseph Artka, Charles Cousin, John Dinmore, P. Toney,Lewis Artrickey, Henry and Rirs Yeager, Mike Schodenskey, Andrew Frebas, Jobn Shehan, Andrew Mallady, Mat Shevack, use of the Blue- baker Coal Co., vs The Benton Coal Co., and G. Murray Andrews, a stockholder. This case was taken up Tuesday evening and concluded Wednesday morning when the jury returned a verdict for the plain- tiff, subject to a reserved point of law. The business for the week being finished court adjourned. THE GRAND JURY'S REPORT. To the Honorable the Judge of quarter ses- sions of the peace in and for the county of Centre. April sessions, 1900. The Grand Inquest of the Commonwealth, of Pennsylvania, inquiring for the county of Centre, in all matters relating to the same, do respectfully report : That they have acted upon thirteen bills of in- dictment of which nine were found true bills and two not true bills and two ignored. We also acted upon three bridge views approv" ing same we beg leave to farther report. That we have visited and inspected the county build- ings and find them in good condition with the following exceptions and recommendations to wit: Firsr—We recommend the replacing of the old water closets and bath tub in the jail by new ones of modern style and the replacing of the old gate in the jail yard by a new one. Seconp—We recommend the continuance of the work of refurnishing the prothonotary’s office and the other offices in the court house, where same has not been completed. We respectfully tender our thanks to the hon- orable judge and district attorney for their courtesy and assistance rendered us during our deliberations. W. GALER MORRISON, Foreman. THE SECOND WEEK OF COURT. The civil week in court hardly came up to the short record made by the criminal list last week and by the middle of Tues- day afternoon the session had adjourned and the cout house assumed its usual solemn appearance. Only four cases went to trial, but a num- ber were settled or disposed of as follows : C. K. Sober vs J. C. Condo; feigned is- sue; general issue; judgment was confessed for costs in favor of the plaintiff. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. vs Beaver Lum- ber Co., Mary I. Ardell, et al; ejectment; plea, ‘‘not guilty; case continued. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. vs Geo. Lucas, et al; replevin; plea, ‘‘non cepit and prop- erty,’”’ case continued. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. vs David Hoo- ver, et al; replevin; plea, ‘non cepit and property ;’’ case continued. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. vs A. J. Griest; replevin; plea, ‘non cepit and property,’ case continued. John P. Harris, W. T. Gray and Samuel T. Gray vs Jacob Thielman, Samuel Marsh and Geo. Chapman; replevin; plea, ‘‘non cepit and property;’’ case continued. John P. Harris, et al vs Morrell Mar- shall’ et al; ejectment; plea, ‘not guilty ;” case continued. Frick Co. vs W. M. Lutz; assumpsit; plea, ‘‘non assumpsit;’’ case continued. John G. Love, etal, Exr’s of Adam Hoy, deceased, vs. The German-American In- surance Co., of New York; assumpsit; plea, “non assumpsit.’”” This case being “‘spe- cial’’ was continued. Wm. I. Harvey vs Thos. 1. Lucas; re- plevin; plea, ‘non cepit and property,” case continued. Robert Kinkead vs Rosa L. Pearce; as- sumpsit, plea, “non assumpit’’; case con- tinued on account ot the illness of Rosa L. Pearce, the defendant. Samuel Wilkinson, et al. vs Richard O’Neill, overseer of the poor of Rush town- ship, and P. R. Gorman supervisor of Rush township: feigned issue; case continued. S. S. Messinger & Son vs John Wert and James Wert; assumpsit; plea, ‘‘non as- sumpsit; case settled by the parties. Henry Wohlfort vs Nathan Hough and Emeline Hough; trespass; plea, ‘‘not guilty’ case continued. Nannie Lucas vs the Twp. of Boggs; tres- pass; plea, ‘‘not guilty’’ case settled by the parties as per agreement filed. Mary Nyman vs the Twp. of Boggs; tres- pass; plea ‘‘not guilty’’; case settled by the parties as per agreement filed. First National bank of Bellefonte vs Peter F. Collins, Adm. of Thos. Collins, to recover on a note. Judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $989.85. Wm. Witmer vs W. J. Sowers. Feign- ed issue to prove title of some personal property levied on as belonging to James Witmer, a son of plaintiff. Plaintiff claimed property and a verdict in his favor was rendered. Austin Swisher vs John and George Bruss. Tresspass. Some land claimed hy Swisher was taken possession of by the Brusses in Huston township about 1894 on an article of agreement. The land was first sold to Bennet by Swisher on an arti- cle but the purchaser threw it up. Mean- while Hugh Adams issued on it for obliga- tions of the Bennets held by him and it was sold at sheriff’s sale ; Adams buying it and selling to the Brusses and Swisher brought suit against them. Verdict for defendant. David Spotts vs S. R. Pringle and Mar- tin Cowher. Tresspass. Spotts was occu- pying a farm in Worth township bought at sheriff’s sale by S. R. Pringle. The own- er wanted possession and repeatedly noti- fied the tenant of his desire, but the latter, for various reasons, was unable to move until a year or more had elapsed, when Pringle, with Cowher and several others, went to the premises, forced the door and set Spotts’ furniture out on the road, where it remained exposed to the rain and weath- er for a week and five days. Spotts sued to recover $200 damages to his effects. Verdict for defendants. Fanny Barnhart vs the Boro of Belle- fonte. Suit to recover $5,000 for injuries sustained by a fall on Curtin street during the fall of 1898. The young lady was walk- ing along that thoroughfare, where a new grade had lately been established and the walks were at different levels. She fell at one of the grades and injured herself in such a way as to effect a perma- nent jeopardy to her health. The case would have been an exceptionally interest- ing one, but owing to the discovery of some late evidence by the defense the court granted a petition of continuance and the case went over to the August term at the expense of the Borough. An Example and a Warning. “I'm afraid,’ said the patient wife, ‘‘that yours will be the fate of Abel.” “Why, what do you mean ?”’ asked the astonished husband. “Well,” she replied, ‘‘Abel was killed by a club, and your club will be the death of you if you don’t come home oftener.’’ —From the Chicago Daily News. A Fast BrcycLE RIDER—Will often re- ceive painful cuts, sprains or bruises from accidents. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, will kill the pain and heal the injury. It’s the oyclist’s friend. Cures Chafing, Chapped Hands, Sore Lips, Burns, Ulcers and Piles. Cure guaranteed. Only 25¢. Try it. Sold by F. P. Green druggist.
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